Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms"

In this registry it is planned to include all Belgian patients diagnosed with aggressive and symptomatic unresectable locally advanced or metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC) who have been prescribed Caprelsa® (vandetanib). The characteristics of patients receiving Caprelsa® (vandetanib) will be described. Therefore real life data regarding demographic characteristics, evolution of the disease, RET mutation status, the treatment before, during and after vandetanib, dose and duration of treatment with Caprelsa® (vandetanib) and time of progression or death (if applicable) will be included.

analysis of the risk factors of intra-hepatic distant recurrence (IDR) of hepatocellular carcinoma within 1 year after radiofrequency ablation.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether HGF serum concentration might be raised in vivo by administering nadroparin given with prophylactic purpose to gynecological patients.

Trial protocol intended the optimization of induction treatment with: Inclusion of PEG-ASP in induction and in the three blocks of consolidation. Reduction of the dose of daunorubicin, and recent studies have shown that the use of high doses of anthracyclines has not brought higher response rates or longer duration Replacing the poor cytological response at day 14 by the level of ER at the end of induction as a criterion to decide the further treatment (consolidation or second induction), so as to have only one criterion (the ER) throughout the study to decision making. For another hand, reducing non-essential drugs consolidation blocks to try to reduce toxicity during it, and replace the ASP E. coli in induction and consolidation of PEG-ASP to ensure a more sustained asparagine depletion. Also, increasing the dose of methotrexate (3 to 5 g/m2) in patients with ALL-T, since there is recent evidence of a higher response rate with this strategy. Performing an allo-HSCT early (after one cycle of consolidation) for patients with inadequate level of ER after two cycles of induction or in those patients who required two courses of induction and have obtained proper ER after the second. Conducting studies of RD centrally by cytofluorometry following Euroflow consensus standards, to avoid bias in making treatment decisions

This study is to reveal any potential advantage of Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Myomectomy (RLAM) over Traditional Laparoscopic Myomectomy (TLM) by comparing the perioperative variables and short-term outcome of RALM and TLM patients.

The aim of this study is to identify prognostic factors for outcome in patients being complete clinical responders with chemoradiation or radiation for esophageal cancer

This purpose of this study it to characterize the walking patterns of children diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)and Lymphoblastic Lymphoma (LL) at different times in the treatment protocol and after completion of treatment. Their walking patterns will be compared to children without ALL or LL to see if their walking patterns are different at specific times in their treatment program or up to 10 years after completion of their treatment. The investigators will gather data by observing how the child walks, runs, hops on one foot and climbs stairs and by recording walking patterns on a pressure sensitive mat. The investigators will compare this data to children without ALL and LL.

Objective: To evaluate the role of regional lymphadenectomy in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastasis. Background: Lymph node status is 1 of the most important prognostic factors in oncologic surgery; however, the role of lymph node dissection remains unclear for colorectal cancer liver metastasis.

This research trial studies genes in tissue samples from younger and adolescent patients with soft tissue sarcomas. Studying samples of tumor tissue from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer. It may also help doctors find better ways to treat cancer

Aim of the present study is to investigate whether baseline or early post-treatment (one month after treatment commencement) frequency of peripheral T regulatory lymphocytes (Tregs OR CD4+/CD25high/FOXP3+ T cells), known to suppress antitumor immune response, may influence long-term clinical outcome (i.e. radiological response, progression-free survival or overall survival) in metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with a standard first-line chemotherapy including fluorouracil, irinotecan and bevacizumab